Fifty
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfɪfti/ · Part of speech numeral
Quick meaning: Fifty is a numeral meaning The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
Meaning
The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
More Meanings
- (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
Example Sentences
Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
‘If you shoot him I’ll give you fifty pounds.’ ‘All right!’ The driver laughed. ‘I’ll do my best to earn that fifty!’
It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?
Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock.
Word Forms
- fiftie
- fifties
Synonyms for fifty
Depending on context, synonyms include L, fivety, cardinal.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include l, cardinal, half-century, five, half, fifteen.
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